Reconstruction methods and completeness conditions for two Compton data models

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 445-459

  Smith, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY;

COMPTON IMAGING DEVICES; KLEIN-NISHINA DISTRIBUTION;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 15244343156     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.000445     Document Type: Article

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